Martian Dawn - Softcover

Friedman, Michael

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1885586442 ISBN 13: 9781885586445

Publisher: Turtle Point Press, 2006

Synopsis

“Reading Martian Dawn is like watching an ultracool comedy of the future where familiar movie types develop into idyllic interplanetary characters in order to make yet more movies. It’s as though Star Trek, Pretty Woman, and There’s Something About Mary had been sublimated in an unlikely fusion that is both comforting and hilarious.”—Harry Mathews

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About the Author

Friedman is the author of 6 books and chapbooks of poetry. His work has appeared in Great American prose Poems (Scribner, 2003). He was educated at Columbia, Yale and Duke. Former Chairman of St Marks Poetry Project he now practices law in Denver and teaches in Naropa's MFA program.

Reviews

A Richard obviously based on Gere and a Julia obviously based on Roberts are called back to work reshooting—on Mars—the botched ending to a science fiction movie, Martian Dawn. Julia, in an earlier life an exotic dancer at the Baby Doll lounge in Phoenix, has just finished work on Cat Fight at the OK Corral, the story of "supermodels on the loose in Manhattan." Richard, a devout Buddhist, has been following his dharma (and his spiritual teacher, Rinpoche) around the country, bedding women on the side. Meanwhile, two of the sequestered inhabitants of a self-contained biosphere experiment in the Arizona desert are sneaking out at night for pizza, while Russian and American astronauts, two women and two men, orbit overhead flirting with each other. And elsewhere in the comically off-kilter universe of this larky debut novel from poet Friedman (Species), a man in a bar is obsessed by Monstro, a pet baby whale who has been freed into the Atlantic. Friedman (by day a commercial law attorney in Denver) skewers Hollywood pomposity, environmental idealism, spiritual empowerment—and the surprising banality of a human outpost on Mars—with prose that's a marvel of economy, sardonic without excess sarcasm and rife with deadpan humor. Slight but sly, this is a scrumptious literary trifle. (Oct.)
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Edition details

• Publisher: Turtle Point Press
• Publication date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1885586442
• ISBN 13: 9781885586445
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 149